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already brought to us fo many fingle fliips of 

 that divifioru Dr. Cleghorn and myfelf hap- 

 pened to be on our way to the hofpital, and on 

 reaching St. Anne's hill we had a moft fpl en- 

 did view of about eighty fhips failing fmooth- 

 ly below us, fpreading their white canvafs along 

 the coaft of the Ifland, as they proceeded 

 towards the harbour. Our expectations now 

 feemed confirmed. It muft be the Cork 

 fleet : and we felt affured of a fpeedy de- 

 parture for St. Domingo ! But our meafure 

 of vexation was not yet filled. Judge of our 

 difappointment en finding it to be only a fleet 

 of merchantmen ! Never perhaps was expecta- 

 tion fo often raifed, and fo repeatedly difap- 

 pointed, as regarding the unhappy convoys of 

 this great and threatening armament. 



After fpending nearly fix months in vain 

 attempts to make the paflage, we are told that 

 the two great divifions of our expedition are 

 ftill lying in harbour, only preparing to put to 

 fea ; and amidft all the ftorms and perils 

 which have fo conftantly oppofed the progrefs 

 of the fhips of war, and the tranfports, our 

 mortification is increafed by finding that a fleet 

 of flow failing traders, could make the voyage, 



